Blogging at Work!

I am at work (shhhh, don’t tell the boss!) and I am bored out of my ever living mind. I did the pile of work that was left for me within the first hour and a half of my 3 hour shift. I got sidetracked on my way in, so I didn’t stop and pick up any more work from other offices, but they didn’t look happy to see me yesterday anyways…. Can you imagine that? Here I am, working for the other offices for free (obviously this office is paying me), and they are not thrilled to see me? But I did get to talk to a couple of friends on my way in, which is better than work anyways! I have 3 more shifts in this office, and then, nothing planned until Thanksgiving. God I wish I didn’t miss the Walmart orientation last week! If only they had called me, I would have been there despite that I had work scheduled for one more day! At any rate, here I am. I turned down an interview today. It was for Coles Bookstore (our Chapters), and I actually felt bad that I would screw them over for Christmas, so I told her straight out that I was planning to be in Ghana for Christmas. She told me to please re-apply when I return, so that’s good at least! Maybe I should just go to Ghana for longer! Screw this working for a living shit! Let’s go! At this rate, that is looking like the best idea. Can I really start a job only to leave 2 months in? I don’t want to screw over my employers, I want to work! I like to work! It keeps me busy and out of trouble! Why doesn’t anyone want to let me work! Now that this idea has crossed my mind, it is what I want to do. I was looking at flights today, and I can do a round trip from Vancouver for $1500 right now when I want to go (those flights were November 24th to December 28th or something. Maybe I will look into sooner, and go for longer. It’s the flight that is my biggest expense after all! May as well make it worth it! Then I can find a job to get me through when I get home. I would even be happy with Walmart! Sadly my school hasn’t posted the 2011 dates yet, and I am anxious to get that going. I have printed the forms, but I haven’t dealt with them yet. Ideally, my tickets can be booked around that! But, I am somewhat making friends again, so maybe New Year’s Eve here would be fun – it wasn’t amazing in Ghana! Although I love BC, this is just not working for me right now!

I ran into one of my best friends from high school today. I had texted him a month or so ago (I bet longer), and hadn’t heard back from him, but then, I am sure I was at least a year late in texting him. We haven’t hung out since high school – and more in junior high than senior high – but we have always managed to stay at least in contact. I normally know where is his at, and what he is doing. We are Facebook friends so we can follow each other from a distance. Anyways, I was walking by his work today, and saw him out front, so I popped in to say hi. He said that his life has become a gong show, but he was just thinking about how he never texted me back, and that he should. We have tentative plans to hang out tomorrow after I get off work, as he, of course, has a day-time job. As I walked away, on the rest of my journey, it made me smile. It’s been probably seven years since we last hung out, and we have never really talked since. But, we are still friends, and we still hang out. I am glad he still cares about me enough to want to go for coffee. And, I am happy with myself. I am finally in a place where I don’t mind having coffee with people, because I am not just another sob-story. My life is on track too! I love it when I can tell only good things, as opposed to my depressed monologue that has been so common!

I went out with the girls last night. They are a new group, who I actually met through Trav’s roommate – but I think I would have met most of them through my Student Union contact anyways. We watched a movie at the theatre – Going The Distance is hilarious, by the way. They are going to try to do it weekly. It’s nice to have something like that to start to make friends with - there is the basic chit-chat before and after the show, but less full-out conversation which tends to make me nervous sometimes. I am going to try really hard to go to Nina’s birthday party – at least until they hit the bars – so that I can make even more friends! Of course, these are the people that I am thinking I might spend New Years with already! It has been a long time since I have had a group of friends!

I am show casing the Orphanage tomorrow at CNC’s Community Fair. I am pretty excited for it. I have my brochures all packed and ready, the computer, the scrapbooks, and the extension cord. I hope people stop and talk to me about it. But no matter what, I know that people will be excited by the pictures and things as well.

I don’t think the picture book I sent to Ghana with a professor from CNC made it to them. I will have to contact Jacob and see what is going on. I will just bring it with me! For Pete’s Sake! It is so difficult to deal with people sometimes! I was afraid that Eddie would be difficult – I am not sure if he was or what happened, but I am annoyed that it didn’t make it there as I had planned! I was especially worried when we pulled out of IVHQ :(

I still have half an hour left to kill, but sadly, I think I am out of words!